Millionaire’s shortbread – well, if you can’t have the millions, at least you can have the shortbread. And this is the uber, ultimate chocolate caramel slice, with a hint of ginger in the biscuit, and Green&Black’s organic 70% cocoa chocolate on the top. I find milk chocolate is too sickly with this cake – you [...]

On the whole I’ve had a positive response to starting this pet healthstore business up and I can’t tell you how fantastic friends and family have been, turning out at 3.30 AM! to drive for two hours then work all day for instance.  That brilliant.
There are though, in the pet industry mainly, a couple of [...]

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If you’ve been following our easy steps to Christmas, you should have a good idea of your plans: Christmas dinner organised, visits to family and friends booked, shopping list complete. If not, don’t worry as there’s still time to get ahead. But have you factored [...]

Well it’s been a while. But finally, finally my debts are reducing, thanks to loads of hard work and a book deal  (more about this in another blog ).
I’ve managed to stick to five rules, and I can tell you – they were tough.
1) No more clothes – only buy to replace something that’s either [...]

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There has been a big to-do about Apple’s sleek new iPhone, which launched this month. On top of the [...]

Writing a will is a depressing thought – which would probably explain why 67% of adults haven’t got one. Unfortunately, there isn’t a government regulator that’s responsible for will writers in this country, and you don’t have to be qualified to write a will.
This means there are many companies that will provide you with a [...]

Ok, it’s been over 2 months since my last blog and I’m very sorry to have been away so long.  But this is what happens when your to-do list gets so long it falls off the edge of the table.  So be warned.  Actually it’s just been very busy and quite overwhelming, there’s been so [...]

On BBC Breakfast News this morning I was commenting on Nationwide’s report that we’re likely to have 0% house price growth next year. This is after the Council of Mortgage Lenders’ report that it would be 1% and the news from the Chartered Institute of Surveyors that house prices have already started to go down [...]

This Saturday (24 November) is Buy Nothing Day – a global protest against rampant consumerism. This event has been happening once a year for over a decade and it’s always on a Saturday close to Christmas. The first Buy Nothing Day was organised in Vancouver in September 1992, founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and [...]

I was out with my friend Jason at the weekend and he said he had some extra money saved up and didn’t know what was the best thing to do with it. He wasn’t allowed to put it into his mortgage (that’s always the first question I ask as paying off all or part of [...]